The Training System Established in the Glasgow Normal Seminary, and Its Model Schools

David Stow

ISBN 10: 0461611503 / ISBN 13: 9780461611502

Published by HardPress Ltd, 2021

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Training System Established in the Glasgow Normal Seminary, and Its Model Schools
• Publisher: HardPress Ltd
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0461611503
• ISBN 13: 9780461611502
• Binding: Paperback / softback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 526 grams

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The Training System Established In The Glasgow Normal Seminary, And Its Model Schools by David Stow presents a comprehensive program for public education that aims to counteract the demoralizing influences of urban life. The work outlines a threefold approach to child development—physical, intellectual, and moral—centered on a family-like model extended into schools through infant and juvenile training, model schools, and a Normal Seminary for teacher training. Stow advocates Bible-based training integrated with secular subjects, emphasizing experiential learning, picturing out ideas in words, simultaneous gallery-based participation, and a play-ground that serves as a moral training ground as much as a health aid. He argues that moral training—habits, empathy, honesty, and self-control—must be cultivated, not merely taught, and insists that schools provide a platform for moral as well as intellectual formation. The volume covers the Training System’s philosophy, objectors, practicalities of running model and normal schools, funding considerations, and detailed descriptions of curricula, apparatus, and classroom architecture, all aimed at creating an efficacious, transferable method for improving society through child development and teacher preparation.